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Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics

PART II
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Sympathy passes beyond feeling, and takes in Thought or self-consciousness.
Happiness has two ends--the maintenance of man's Rational nature, and Pleasure.
MANSEL.

The conceptions of Right and Wrong are _sui generis_.

The moral law can have no authority unless emanating from a lawgiver.

The Standard is the moral nature, and not the arbitrary will, of God.
JOHN STUART MILL.

Explanation of what Utilitarianism consists in.
Reply to objections against setting up Happiness as the Ethical end.
Ultimate Sanction of the principle of Utility: the External and Internal sanctions; Conscience how made up.


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